Active Covid cases cross 1,000-mark in Panchkula

The steep rise in cases seen in at least five districts of Haryana, including Panchkula, triggered the state to fling into action. It put additional curbs on those five districts, including shutting down markets and malls by 6 pm. Despite restrictions, the daily positive case count has not seen a reduction.

While rural areas did not report many positive cases initially, out of the 415 cases reported from Panchkula on Saturday, 49 are from rural areas of the district.

The active cases stood at 100 on January 1, 372 on January 5, crossed the 500 mark on January 6 and then the 1000 mark on Saturday.

Even though the district has ramped up its testing to take more than 2,200 samples per day, the positive rate has continued to climb. Positivity rate is the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of the total number of people tested.

On Saturday, the district had a 16.21 per cent positivity rate. The positivity rate stood at 1.2 per cent only a week back on January 1. It crossed the five per cent mark three days later, on January 4, to stand at 5.13 per cent.

33 per cent between 15-18 jabbed

Of the total of 7,990 doses administered on Saturday, as many as 2,398 were children between the ages of 15-18. Recording high numbers, the Panchkula health administration claimed vaccination of 33 per cent of the young population as an ‘achievement’.